A person with a blue checkmark on Twitter verifies themselves to give themselves professional legitimacy. Especially considering that in the example we are discussing, the person's profession is to reach people and share words, associating their publicly shared words with their professional life is not beyond the pail. They've associated their name with their job, not me.
The HN hive mind appears to believe that if all the HN readers in the world refuse to work for companies that they don't like, then a new age of love, peace and libertarianism will dawn across the world.
